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“Sleep is overrated generally. I don't sleep that well and don't sleep that long. I value it, but it's just not for me, though I know it's a good thing to be rested and not sleep-deprived.

“I operate better at night than I do in the morning. My mind works better the later I go. I almost have to wait sometimes to do stuff. Creative things happen better for me later at night. I probably get about five hours a night.

“I stay up late because something might happen. If I stay up a little longer, a movie might come on or whatever, something good might happen, a phone call, I just don't want to shut it down. It's the same mentality as a sophomore in college. I'm afraid I might miss something, and I'm still that way.”

Ed Thompson of Fox Sports reports in his Seven Points feature that journeyman quarterback and UW product Mark Brunell is prepared to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy after earning over $50 million in his NFL career.

Nate Davis of USA Today offers 10 reasons he’ll take Football over Futbol any day of the week. The World Cup has been fun to watch, but I would have to agree with Davis here. It’s June, so it’s not like we have a choice to watch anything else.

About the Seahawks Insider Blog

Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.